At 12:58 AM 5/31/97 -0400, you wrote:>On Fri, 30 May 1997, Arvin Meyer wrote:>>> I decided that I didn't need to keep a log, mainly because I wasn't>> particularly thrilled with it writing to my drive every few seconds. I have>> a Pentium 200 with 64 Mb so my HD will often go to sleep for 10 minutes at>> a time (nice power management).>>I would guess that the client appears to slow down because you've got>power management stuff running -- it notices noone is using any>periphials, and so it powers down the drive and slows down the CPU.

I am running DESGUI on my ThinkPad at home. The BIOS features CPU power
management. Apparently the software is not smart enough to realize that the
CPU is taxed at 100% and reduces the cycle rate when user input is lacking
for a certain amount of time. You definitely want to disable CPU power
management.